Honestly. With my best effort, and my sincere attention:
- I do not remember wildifires in during summer
Honestly
I may be p*ssed of by & the non-sense of nationalism at a point they cannot imagine
But honestly: I did not wish to witness a season of wildfires in
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Thanks to for the link for "send feedback about emergency alerts". Good timing, just when I was grumbling about it :-)
Here's what I just sent:
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a) Clicking OK to make the noise stop also makes the message disappear off the screen. This is a design flaw. There should be a prominent button for stopping the noise, and a separate way to close the window after reading the message. (But I don't know to what extent this is under your control, vs needing to regulate phone software manufacturers.)
b) Each use of the alarm has wellbeing costs and time costs: e.g. people shocked by the sudden noise, sick people and shift workers woken up, people with some cognitive disabilities being frightened, people who accidentally shut the message having to stop what they were doing and find out what they missed. This cost is appropriate and proportionate for time-sensitive emergencies such as earthquakes, floods or current fires.
General advice, however valuable, is a different category of information, which to my mind doesn't justify an un-time-shiftable noisy alarm. A prime minister's speech plus some good adverts (including on bus stops etc) seem to me more appropriate for what we were just sent. That message I think was arguably a misuse of the service.
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Anyone else who wanted to send feedback, here's the page:
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For those who might need to know....
On my Android phone:
Settings
Notifications
Advanced settings
Wireless emergency alerts
My settings are:
Extreme alerts 'on'.
Severe alerts 'on'.
Vibration 'on'.
Alert reminder 'once'.
Always alert on full volume 'off'.
Speak alert 'off'.
There is also an 'Emergency Alert History' that shows what the alerts have been.
I have two test alerts and the current one we just had.
Other phones may differ.
I missed the biggest news of the day:-
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Huh Did something happen What's everybody talking about
In case you want to see the message again, or want to disable the alerts on a secret phone:
On my Samsung Galaxy
Settings Safety and Emergency Wireless Emergency Alerts
Then there are options to enable/disable them and also Emergency Alert History.
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yeah as far as I can tell from social media scan that alarm just
A: Pissed everyone off
B: Anyone not pissed off is busy deep breathing into a paper bag and will be pissed off as soon as their heart stops exploding.
C: Anyone with a hidden or secret phone is currently up shit creak without a paddle...
not only they used critical mechanism to send advice, but also gov.uk/alerts they refer to doesn't have the message in English. So if you closed the message to make it stop making noise, you better learn Welsh...
On one hand, the emergency alert system works. On the other, we still have to tell people not to set parks on fire with disposable BBQs and fireworks.
The website is only showing the alert. Did someone specify 'eventual consistency' rather than realtime
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So the yUK just sent our a message to all mobiles telling us that there's a high risk of wild fires, ooohhh really I didn't know that five severe heatwaves and no rain would do that.
Better late than never, now get on with helping the environment and not filling share holders and CEO pockets.
Just had the bloody Emergency Alert 3 times. It wasnt even an emergency. Idiots.
Basically dont start a fire in the Uk as the place is a tinderbox. Damn. And I was about to go play with matches in the garden too!
Scared the shit out of me, but Im actually not mad. Hopefully they dont abuse the ability to make my phone scream though! (This is definitely a good use of that ability)
I am not sure this is an appropriate use of the emergency messaging service. I am just glad I wasnt driving when this went off.
I nearly jumped out of my skin just now. The national emergency alert system just triggered, causing every phone in the house to play a siren.
The impending dire emergency A generic warning that there could be wildfires, somewhere in the country. Because of the heatwave we are all very much aware of.
Has nobody in our government heard the story of the boy who cried wolf
So, we all just jumped out of skins, yeah
Parts of UK just got a push Wildfire alert
Emergency alert system works then...
still waiting for Andy Burnham to say something about Global Warming, but at least the emergency alert system works for wildfires
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